I think what he's saying is that all the mx hosts for aol.com are not responding on their smtp ports. Note the attached data that shows the aol mx hosts giving connection refused on their smtp ports. wolverine:~> dig mx aol.com. ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> mx aol.com. ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; aol.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 d.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 c.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 b.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 a.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 25 b.mr.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 25 a.mr.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 e.mx.aol.com. wolverine:~> telnet a.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.72... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet b.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.31... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet c.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.74... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet d.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.33... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet e.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.81... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet a.mr.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.19.33... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet b.mr.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.19.36... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Richard Colella graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
TOdd,
Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.
--Richard
On Apr 9, 2:59pm, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
Subject: Not to be alarmist... but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for, ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
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